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RADIO TOPICS

MORSE AND RADIO.

HOW BROADCASTING IS SPOILT.

AN EVENING'S TEST.

PROGRAMMES.

THE ORDER OF POPULARITY `REVEALED.

AN INTERESTING BALLOT.

RADIO RACE.

BRITAIN AND AMERICA'S PROGRESS.

A NEW RELAY CHAIN,

A ballot was recently conducted It has been stated that the race In the course of an evening's test on the broadcast band twelve Morse by a London newspaper with the for supremacy, in radio lles be- stations which were Jamming radio object of finding the order of popu- tween Britain and America, re- programmes were identified with larity of the various classes of en marks a London. paper. Assuming

our high-power Of tertainment usually broadcast, and that something.

regional like certainty. these, two were French coastal sta- as over, a million and a quarter station scheme is an off-set to the of big tions (Boulogne and-L'Orient), five votes were registered the result German multiplication French ships, one a British coastal may be taken as being really re stations, and considering the mat station (the North Foreland), one presentative of public opinion,

ter from the points of view of or- The result was as follows:- a Swedish ship, one a Russian

ganisation, programmo efficiency, Subject, Votes cast. ship, one a Norwegian ship, and Order.

and the total number of listeners one a Belgian ship.

1. Variety and Concert

compared with the population, this Parties.....................

258,489 179,153 may be so. America, of course, has -many more stations than Britain- 164,613

about 700-and something like ten 134,027

times as many radio sets in use, 114,671 but, on the other hand, they have 78,781 no semblance of unified control, no

ata- Two other French coastal tions and one British are believed to have been identified, but it is not yet possible to class them de- finitely as offenders.

Budapest was jammed both by a British ship (unidentified), which was sending a trivial private mes- Bage to someone ashore, and by a French coastal station.

Rosen-

2. Light Orchestral Music 3. Military Bende

4. Dance Music

5. Talk: Topical Sport

and News

6. Symphony Concerts

7. Solos: Vocal and In-

strumental

huegel on 617.2 metres was auffer- ing from interference from French ship, two other sets of faint spark signals and a "tanic train" 11. Talk: Scientific and In- transmission! On Bournemouth's wave-length was цл automatic signal as well as a fairly powerful spark.

72,658

8. Opera and Oratorio

60,983

a

9. Outside Broadcasts

Plays 10. Short

Sketches

51,755

and

49,857

formative

30,919

12. Glees, Choruses, Sea

Shanties

30,445

12. Chamber Music 14. Revues

27,467

27,059

17,576

16. Readings and Recita-

tions

2,717

Votes not recorded

4,013

Berlin Witzleben had an accom- paniment from a French ship, wh le both Paris PTT and Bruenn were jammed by n British direction-find- and a Russian ship. ing station Berne was spoilt by a ship sending code, Glasgow by a French ship, and both Stuttgart and Madrid by a Norwegian.

15. Long Plays'

1,285,083

This seems to be a most emphatic victory for the "low-bows" and the result will no doubt have a large in- fuence on the future policy of the B.B C. Programme Board.

Fr its carliest days, however, the B.B.C. has had its own methods of discovering the order of popular-

A little lower down in the wave- length scale a terrible "mix up" was accurring. Birmingham, Bres- lau, Dublin, and Milan were jam- med by three separate transmis Rions those of a French coastal station, French ship, and a Bel-ity of broadcast items. Their daily gian. A Swedish ship, and others of various nationalities, engaged in testing far from any authorised wave-longth, ruined the transmis sions of Newcastle and Belfast, while others interfered with the re lay groups a little below 300 metres. One French ship, heard on more than one occasion, was using such fat tuning that its signals were clearly audible over a band of more than 30 metres. Malmoe was in- terfered with by a French ship, and

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pont bag brings in many letters of approval and condemnation and these opinions are all carefully in dexed and analysed. Thus it has been known for a long time that variety programmes were by far the most popular of any, and the Royal Command Performance broadsest drew. forth more appreciative let- tera than any other recent trans- mission.

Even the popularity of Individuși artists is known to the programme

Bui

Rear Admirut Kim H ford. U. 8. N, rotlied, who has been nominated for the chairmanship of the Federal Ru:lio Commission be President Confide Admiral Bal Jard to nominated Car the six-year term nnder the recently enacted radio control law.

casting.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927. DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

26

2%

18

36

136

34

580

442+

1443

1944

45

46

148

49

50

HOR.ZONTAL 1-Adversary

4-Projection at the side of a hearth 7-To impose unfairly

Chis whiskere 11-Fatty portion of

meat 12-Meadow 14-Pastoral pipe 16-Ån ammet 17-Reposet 19-24 hours

20-Prefix meaning

"doubla"

21-To surviva, 18, advaralty

23-The (Fr.)

24-Foot trouble (pl.)

*25-Elevata

28-9st fres

-To fasten

10-Dogma

37 38

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL(Cont) VERTICAL (Cont.)

27-Ashleve |39-Incorporated

-(abbr.)

41-Shovel

[42-A fish's propeller 48-Place for storing

corn

48-Consumad 48-Cubes used in

games 47-City In Spain

| 40-A blouse

21-Convanad |52-Clear profit

VERTICAL

1-Worry

B-Three strikes

8-Printer's measure

4-Pronoun

-Long-handled

paddla

6-Raised

$2-Foul water in a ship] 7-A blouse'

-34-Exclamation

35-Lles abjectly

prostrate

8-Entreaties

S-To take a bath 10-Distributed, cards

11-Mournfui

18–Superlative suffix

|16-To coler

17-Furnishes 12-Measured by a distance of. 60 degrees (Astrof.) 21-To compress by

twisting [22-30offs

FB-Raw mata!

27-A limb 80-8timulating

medicina

|$1-Precious stons

32-Molaton

38-A decres

34-Belonging to a boy 36–Large container for

liquide

38-Unit

[40-A mollusk

{42–A doubled-up hand

44-Brief poem 146-Expire

48-Neuter pronoun 50-Article

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS.WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filing in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in toch white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a neie cross-word puzzle.)

country, on the other hand, line repeaters are much more effectively need in underground cables than in overhead wires.,

Geneva scheme to distribute wave lengths, and appear to be only just reallsing the advantages of simul. taneous broadcasting. When Pre- eident Coolidge's speech from Washington was being relayed over here by the B.B.C. engineers, it was at the same time being simul taneously transmitted from thirty. eight American broadcasting stationo scattered across the Con-

From the point of view of the tinent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. These stations were link-

possessor of a highly selective set in Britain there is, however, some- ed together by the National Broad- casting Company of America by thing to be said against the over use of the simultaneous broadcast- something like 10,000 miles of land lines, and about 400 engineere were ing system. In the first place he employed on the broadcast. This is robbed of possible alternatives, fent was hailed as a remarkable and secondly, in the initial stages. stride in the development of broad- of the possession of such a receiver, it increases the difficulty of call- Everywhere From the point of view of the brating it properly. distances involved, our own "S.B. he turns in the ether he finds frag- system seems trivial by compari-ments of the London programme, son, but it may be said that the and, consequently, he has to devote possibilities of simultaneous broad- himself to the laborious task of lis- caating have been exploited in Bri-tening to foreign stations for a re- tain practically since the beginning cognisable announcement in order of the old B.B.C. It is only in the to fix condenser positions. last fifteen months, however, that It has been brought up to a pitch of comparative perfection due to the concentration of land lines and the help given by the Post Office leider in the fair sex. Certainly it in arranging for special facilities, The sparks signals must go. At is not surprising to learn that. Sir Previous to fifteen months all events they must be confined Walford Davies is the most popular London served provincial stations strictly to their proper wave of the regular B.B.C. lecturers, by circuitous "ine repeaters." lengths, and ateps must be taken while the recent suggestion of a Now there are lines direct to all against both those who "wander" curtailment of the Children's Hour stations via two centres, Leeds and and those who use flat-tuned trans- brought many protesta to Savoy Gloucester, and the various broad- mitters.

Hill.

casting stations are able, by meano of a simple plug, to take from one of these concentration points "what- ever item is desired, “and the com- It le understood, that the Radio plicated system formerly in use has Corporation of America is manufac-developed. into a simplifted net turing on a huge scale e new radio work This has also, Incidentally, tube that will revolutionise the in- cut down expense.

On a point of comparison it is also interesting to note that tele- phone engineers are of opinion that the climatic conditions across the

Red Grange as a radio announcer in Los Angeles. The picture shows him at the. "mike."

one of our home direction Anding | designers, and it is said that at the stations working with trawlers was moment Flotsam and Jetsam are jamming all stations on wuve- the most popular male entertainers, lengths between 210 and 245 and that Mabel Constanduros is the metres.

COMMUNITY LAUGHING.

Suggested Broadcasting Experiment.

RADIO MADE EASY.

A suggestion has been made that the B.B.C. should broadcast com-dustry. munity laughing. No date has The tube, it is claimed, dispenses been fixed for the experiment, but, with batteries. and current supply if it is made, as it probably will devices and will operate by direct

be, a group of persons in the Lon-connection with light sockets. U.S.A., being decidedly don Studio and others at Birming-

and ham, Manchester,

other EAVESDROPPING, AS SPORT. stations will be induced to laugh

ago,

more

equable, are much more suitable for overhead wires, which have been found boat for radio relays. by some means perhaps by joke ar The "Evening News" draws at The havoc of storms, however, is: by a comic song.. London will tention to an American wireless a drawback common to both coun- laugh first, and as the laughter or journal's invitation to listeners-in tries. In America the "live re London dies away that from Birto indulge in the spirit of eaves peater" points necessary to amplify mingham and Manchester will dropping on Trans-Atlantic conver long-distance signala.can be insert follow, the object being to amusesations and giving details of sed on the overhead wires, and nel listeners and, perhaps, because special four-valve set which will ther the lines nor the poles are so laughter is infections, to start them receive at both ends with loud liable to expanalon and contraction Laughing too,

speaker effect

through climatic changes. In this

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